Advances in Experimental Surgery: Volume 1 (PDF)

Experimental surgery is an important link for developments in clinical surgery, research and teaching. Experimental surgery has been a part of the most important surgical discoveries in the past century. Since 1901, nine Nobel Prizes have been awarded to the pioneers who had remarkable achievements in basic or practical surgery. In recent years, experimental surgery has achieved new advances, like laparoscopic and robotic surgery, tissue engineering, and gene therapy which are widely applied in clinic surgery. The present book covers wide experimental surgery in preclinical research models subdivided into two volumes. Volume I introduces basic surgical notions, techniques, and different surgical models involved in basic experimental surgery, and reviews the biomechanical models, ischemia/reperfusion injury models, repair and regeneration models, and organ and tissue transplantation models, respectively. Volume II introduces several specific experimental models such as laparoscopic and bariatric experimental surgical models. The second volume also introduces graft-versus-host diseases, and other experimental models. A review of the advances and development of recent techniques such as tissue engineering, organ preservation, wound healing and scarring, gene therapy and robotic surgery is included. This book documents the enormous volume of knowledge scientists have acquired in the field of experimental surgery. The editors have invited experts from the United States, Canada, France, Germany, China, Japan, Korea, UK, Sweden, Netherland, Hungary and Turkey to contribute 36 chapters in the fields of their expertise. These two volumes are the compilation of basic experimental surgery and updated advances of new development in this field that will be invaluable to surgeons, residents, graduate students, surgical researchers, physicians, immunologists, veterinarians and nurses in surgery. (Nova Biomedical)